Type-writing machine



(ModeL) J. w. COLE. TYPE WRITING MACHINE.

Patented Dec. 16, 1884B.

INVENTOR aw BY ATTORNEYS.

Unitarian drama Parana rrica.

JAMES XVARREN COLE, OF SPEARVILLE, KANSAS.

TYPE WRlTlNG Iva/reams.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,378, dated December 16, 1884.

Application filed November 2, 1883.

$ ctZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES W. COLE, of Spearville, in the county of Ford and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Type -lVriting Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in typewriters; and it consists in the peculiar construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the machine with a part of the typewheel broken out. Fig. 2 is partly a side elevation and partly a longitudinal section on the line :0 wof Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 3 3/ of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the typewheel on an enlarged scale, and showing its arrangement in detail, and also the index scale and pointers. Fig. 5 is a plan of the type-wheel inverted. Fig. 6 is a detail of the machine in section on the line 2 z, and Fig. 7 is a detail of the regulating device.

The type-wheel a, having two lines, I), of type arranged on the margin of its underside in the same circle, but separated by blank spaces 0, and also having corresponding holes or recesses, (Z, in a smaller circle, is provided with a knob-handle, e, at the center of its upper surface, and is fitted at its center on the pivotstud f, rising up from the free end of a plate, 9, at a suitable inclination to cause the typewheel to pitch downward at one side to the horizontal plane of theunder side of the coverplate h of a case, i, on the top of which the plate to which the type-wheel is pivoted is hinged at j, so that the type-wheel can be pressed down on the paper k,passing over the bar Z, to make the impressions, the wheel being raised to shift it by the handlecfor setting it by one or other of the pointers m and the scale it to cause the type having the letters to be printed to register with the impressionbar Z, V

The impression-bar Z, over which the paper passes to be printed, two guide-bars, 0 and 9,

(Model.)

under which the paper passes to prevent it from having contact with the type except on the impression-bar, the paper-clip slide q,for holding and shifting the paper for setting the lines, also the pawl-bar s and pawl 15, for shifting the clip-slide, are arranged in :a carriage, a, which slides in a grooved way, 12, in the bottom plate, w, of the case, to shift the paper forward and backward to have the lines printed on it. The guidc-bar 1) has notches in the upper edge spaced according to the spaces required between the letters, and the plate 9 has a pawl, 00, pivoted to it in such arrangement with the notched bar that the pawl will strike in the notches, and shift the carriage one notch just before the type-wheel makes the i mpression.

To make wider spaces,for separating words and sentences, there is a little slide device, 3 which projects sufiiciently from the end of plate 9 under pawl m to prevent said pawl from acting more than enough to shift the carriage one notch of the bar p except when said slide is pushed back, which is to be done, whenever longer spaces are required, by the third finger of the hand of the operator that works the type-wheel pressing 011 the arm 2 of this regulatingslide. In practice a spring will be attached to said slide to shift it forward again to the normal position. hen the paper has been fed along under the impression-point to the extent of its width, the carriage a is pushed back by hand for the beginning of a new line, and the paper is shifted forward crosswise of the carriage by the pawl t, which is thrust forward by the slide 8, to which it is pivoted, coming in contact with the end a of the case just before the carriage a reaches the end of its return movement, said pawl being moved forward, in about the inclined position in which it is represented in Fig. 3, into one of the notches Z) of the bar 0 of the paper-clip g, and forcing the clip ahead by swinging around parallel to said notched bar, or nearly so. The slide 8 has a spring, cZ, which pulls said slide back, ready for the next operation, as soon as the carriage moves forward again to the left hand. The swing of the pawl to the left hand and toward the bar 0 is limited to about the position represented in Fig. 8 by a suitable stop at the joint 0, so that as the spring (Z shifts the slide 3 back the pawl t will shift away from bar 0', so that the paper-clip can be readily pulled back by hand for applying new sheets when required. The pawl t comes in contactwith a stud-pin, f, in this back movement of the slide, which shifts said pawl to the position re'presented,ready for engaging a new notch 12 of the bar 0 to shift the paperclip again. The paper-clip is fitted to slide in a suitable guideway, g, in the bottom of g paper-clip under said bar when required.

The arms i have an offset at Z projecting into recesses m in the end pieces of the carriage,

' wherein said arms and the ends of the impression-bar rest to sustain the pressure of the type-wheel in making the impressions. The guide-bars p and o are also attached to arms 12, also pivoted at 7;, and also having offsets at 0 resting in the recesses m of the end pieces, j, for support, said arms being. to enable the guide-bar to swing away from the impression-bar to facilitate the adjusting of the paper on said bar and under said guide-bars. It will be noticed that the type-faces are arranged in a bevel of the margin of the typewheel, as shown at p, which is necessary to cause them to range parallel with the impression-bar in consequence ofthe oblique arrangement of the typewheel, and the wheel is arranged obliquely to cause the type to range sufficiently low at the i1npression-point to reach the impression-bar located below the support of the type-wheel. The type are arranged in the two sections on the face of the type-wheel separated by the blank spaces 0, to make proper and conspicuous divisions between the capitals and small letters, and the spaces also allow the type'whcel to be worked without making the impressions when it is necessary to shift the carriage for blank space. The holes 61 in'the type-wheel coincident with the type are to' receive the registeringpoint q, projecting upward from the end of the table h, so as to enter one of said holes when the type-wh eel is pressed down, and shift the wheel in case it has not been set exactly right by the operator. The registering-point is tapered,

and the holes are drilled so close together that the partitions between them are sufficiently thin to turn one side or the other of the point, and thus prevent the wheel from being arrested on the point. An inking-pad, a, is arranged on the plate 9 each side of the impression-point, over which the type must pass,

and by which they will be suitably inked in being shifted to the impression-point.

The indicator-scalen is marked on a curved plate extending around the type-wheel over the upper margin, and supported at the ends by brackets t, so attached to the plate 9 that the type-wheel a may swing freely under said scale. The scale has the letters of the alphabet in capitals or small letters, as preferred, also the numerals and punctuation-points, while the type-wheel has the letters both in capitals and small, together with the numen als and punctuation-points, and is provided with two pointers, m, to be used with the scale, one of which is adjusted for use in printing capital letters alone, and the other is for small letters, numerals, and punctuationpoints, said pointers being so adjusted that they serve for adjusting their particular lettertype by the one set of letters on the scale.

In practice the hinged plate 9, carrying the type-wheel, will have aspring or springs suitably arranged between it and the cover, as shown in Fig. 6, or in any other suitable manner, to raise it clear of the point q, ready for turning. f

Having thus described my invention, I claim'as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a type-writer, the combination, with the horizontal impression-bar Z, of the hinged plate g, provided with the inclined stud f, and the type-wheel a, pivoted on said inclined stud, and having the type arranged on the beveled margin 19, substantially as herein shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. The type-Wheel a, having the type arranged on the bevel-1nargin p, and being ar ranged on a center stud, f, of a jointed lever- 1 plate, g, hinged to a base, 71, in combination with an impression-bar, Z, said base-plate h being inclined to the impression-bar, and the center stud, f, also inclined thereto suitably for causing the type to have parallel contact with the impression-bar, substantially as described.

3. The type-wheel a, having the capitals and small type arranged in two sections in one circle on the margin 1;, with blank spaces 0 between said sections, and also having two pointers, m, and being arranged on the 013* lique stud f of hinged plate g, in. combination with an impressionbar, Z, and a scale, 02, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with the top h, the impression-bar Z, and the notched feed-bar p, of the hinged plate 9, the pawl x, hinged to said hinged plate, and the type-wheel a,pivoted on an inclined stud of the said hinged plate, substantially as shown and described.

5. The combination of the type-wheel a, hinged plate impression-bar Z, notched feed-. bar 1;,pawl w, and adj usting-stop y z, substantially as described.

6. The carriage a, paper-holding clip q, and

guide-bars 0 p, in combination with the impression-bar Z and typewheel, substantially as described.

7 The guide-bars 0 and 17, arranged on pivoted arnisa, in combination with the paperclip 1 and impressioirbar Z, arranged on pivoted arms 2', substantially as described.

8. The pawl t, pawl-slide 3, spring (1, and stud f, in combination with the notched bar 0 of the paper-clip, said pawl t having liniitcd range of movement on its pivot-joint e, substantially as described.

9. The combination of the type-wheel a, ar ranged on the cover of the case 17, the carriage a, arranged to slide in said case, the paperholding clip q, arranged to slide in the earriagc, the impression-bar Z, paper-guide bars, and the carriage and paper-clip feeding mechanisms, all substantially as described.

10. The combination, with the inclined top 72, the impression-bar Z, and hinged plate havinginelined stud f, of the type-wheel a, pivoted on said stud, and having the type and coincident registering holes (Z on its beveled margin 2), and the adj ustingpoint secured to the end of the top h, substantially as herein shown and described.

11. In a type-writer, the combination,with a case having an inclined top, to which a plate ishinged, which plate carries on a pivot a type-wheel having a beveled edge for the type, and provided with pointers and guideapertures, and which plate is also provided with a spacing-pawl, a gage-plate, and a guidepoint and which case is provided with afeeding-pawl and a spring-pawl stud, of a carriage carrying an impression-bar and guide-bars, one of which guide-bars is notched for the engagement of the spacing-pawl, and said impression and guide bars being hinged by arms to the carriage, and said carriage also carry ing a sliding paperclip having a notched arm for the engagement of the feeding-pawl, substantially as shown and described.

JAMES VARREN COLE. "Witn esses:

GEORGE HALL, LOUIS D. RENO. 

